Client: European Union
Duration: 2017-2020
Region: Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Country: Turkey
Solutions: Environment
Turkey’s economy is characterised by a relatively low, albeit rapidly increasing, environmental footprint. Compared to industrialised countries or other emerging market economies, it has relatively low carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product. At the same time, emissions have increased much faster than in other countries in recent decades. If policies can be enacted that promote greater resource efficiency and pollution abatement without jeopardising economic growth, Turkey could progress towards high income without a dramatic increase in its environmental footprint.
The European Union (EU)-funded Developing an Analytical Basis for Formulating Strategies and Actions Towards Low Carbon Development programme worked to reduce manmade greenhouse gas emissions by increasing national and local capacity to prepare for medium and long-term action toward climate-resilient low-carbon development. This action will gradually align with EU climate policy and legislation by providing an analytical basis to support realisation of low carbon in the long-term, specifically focusing on cost-effective climate change mitigation actions related to building, waste, transport, and agriculture sectors of the National Climate Adaptation and Action Plan (NCAAP).
By the project’s end, it provided an analytical basis to support low-carbon tools, focusing on buildings, waste, and the transportation and agriculture sectors, including 20 technical reports, 84 working group workshops, consultations with 2,000 stakeholders, and the National Climate Knowledge Portal.
RELATED CONTENT:
Despite positive economic growth in recent years, urban Indonesia still suffers from one of the lowest rates of access to safe water and improved sanitation in the region. USAID’s IUWASH Penyehatan Lingkungan untuk Semua, or Environmental Health for All (IUWASH PLUS), is working to expand access to water and sanitation services to hundreds of thousands of low-income urban households.
Read More